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Guests: Richard Wolffe, Howard Fineman, Eugene Robinson, Ron Christie, Joan Walsh, Sam Stein, Elijah Cummings, Jason Altmire
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Aftershock.
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Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
On the 50th anniversary of America's election of John F. Kennedy, who do the Democrats want to have leading them? Are Democrats in Congress willing to go with the same leaders who presided over last week's wipe-out? Do they want to put up the same posters that people voted against? Nancy Pelosi's running for Democratic leader in the House despite sharp criticism from within the party. Tonight, we talk to one of the Democrats who does not want her serving as the Democrats' top leader in the next session.
The fight for number two leader is between the party moderate Steny Hoyer and the party's highest-ranking African-American, James Clyburn. Our stop story tonight, following their worst debacle in history last week, who are the Democrats going to put out there as their leaders?
As for the Republicans, some of their rising hotshots took their victory laps over the weekend, but they're also facing big questions about who's in charge. Will the Tea Party rule?
Plus, President Obama in isolation. He's managed to alienate Republicans, some congressional Democrats, the left, big business, the top donors. So is the president willing to shake up his White House and make the changes necessary to regain control of the nation's capital?
And it turns out George W. Bush had his own problems with Dick Cheney. The former president actually considered dropping him, he says, as his vice president and infuriated Cheney when he rejected his push—Cheney's—to pardon Scooter Libby, Cheney's felonious chief of staff. That's just one bombshell from Bush's new memoir. We'll get to all of it tonight.
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with some thoughts on that election I mentioned of John F. Kennedy, November 8th, 1960, 50 years ago tonight.
Let's start with the Democrats' leadership battles in the House.
We're joined by Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland and U.S.
Congressman Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania.
Congressman Altmire, would you think that Nancy Pelosi would make a great leader for the Democrats in the next Congress?
JASON ALTMIRE (D), PENNSYLVANIA: I don't. I represent middle America. You know Pennsylvania well, Chris. And if you look at the results in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin—that's middle America. That's the industrial Midwest. And we didn't fare so well last Tuesday. And I do think it's time for a change in direction. If you gauge effectiveness by a willingness to push forward legislation that's not popular with the American people and have literally multiple dozens of members cast politically suicidal votes, then yes, Speaker Pelosi was effective. But I don't think that's the direction we want to keep going.
MATTHEWS: Congressman Clyburn, your view? I mean, Congressman Cummings!
MATTHEWS: I'm sorry! Clyburn's running for whip...
REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D), MARYLAND: That's quite a compliment, by the way.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I know it is. It ought to be. He's running for whip, as well, to keep his seat. Let me ask you about the question of the Speaker first. The Speaker—should she be the leader of the Democratic Party in the next Congress or should she step aside?
CUMMINGS: I think that she should remain. Speaker Pelosi, I think, has done an outstanding job. And I think, basically, what has happened is that you've had folks all over the country demonizing her. But let me—let's be frank. There is no one that I know of that has the passion and compassion of a Nancy Pelosi.
And keep in mind that there were 49 districts that McCain had already
had won in, in the last election. So I mean, come on. She's taken on monumental tasks with boldness and clarity. Health care reform—nobody was able to do that in 60 years, and there's no way that we could have accomplished that, by the way, without Nancy Pelosi.
Here in Maryland, Chris, we ran on the health care bill. We talked about it. We talked about saving lives. And all of our members won handily, except one, one of our new members, who was in a McCain district.
MATTHEWS: OK, let's take a look at the fight over the weekend because we're going to have the real James Clyburn coming up here on this—we didn't have him on the show tonight. We got to settle for you, Mr. Cummings. But let's take a look here at Cantor. He's one of the top Republicans. He's from Virginia. He's on Fox News on Sunday, and then Jim Clyburn, the Democratic whip. He's on "MORNING JOE" this morning. Let's listen to both these gentlemen.
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), MINORITY WHIP: If Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from voters this election.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC), MAJORITY WHIP: This had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi's leadership. It had everything to do with an economy that was close to collapse. It has everything to do with an environment that we found ourselves in.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me read you the "New York Times" editorial from this morning. I thi8nk it's pretty tough. "What Democrats need is what Ms. Pelosi has been unable to provide, a clear and convincing voice to help Americans understand that Democratic policies are not bankrupting the country, advancing socialism or destroying freedom. If Ms. Pelosi had been a more persuasive communicator, she could have batted away the ludicrous caricature of her painted by Republicans across the country as some kind of fur-headed commissar jamming her diktats down the public's throat.."
Let me go back to Congressman Altmire. I know Pennsylvania and I know what happened up there. And I looked at all the interesting members of Congress who I happen to like, like Murphy and Carney and Kanjorski, and all these guys went down the drain up there. And I want you to talk about what role—and I saw the ads, Mr. Cummings, over the weekend up there in Philly a couple of weekends. I was up for my daughter's parents' weekend. I got to tell you, those ads blamed members—people running for Congress, who weren't event members of Congress, Democrats, for Pelosi. They were using her as a battering ram against these guys.
So what Altmire's talking about here is the reality on the ground in Pennsylvania. Explain to me, as a fellow who's been around talking to voters now for months and years, what do they think of Pelosi? What's the truth about Pelosi? Is it the same thing?
CUMMINGS: You asking me, Chris?
MATTHEWS: I want to go to Mr. Altmire first. I'm talking about the bad news here for the Dems.
ALTMIRE: Yes, Chris, you hit the nail right on the head. She became the symbol of what the American people were uncomfortable with, a big government agenda, a big spending agenda. I don't question where Speaker Pelosi's heart is. I don't question her passion on the issues. What I question is whether the future of the Democratic Party is well served with her continuing as leader. And I know in my region of the country, in the one district that I've been elected to represent, her views are inconsistent with the views of my district. It's as simple as that.
MATTHEWS: What view is different between you and her? Give me the biggest difference between you and her, Congressman Altmire, on substance.
ALTMIRE: What she pursued with regard to cap-and-trade in western Pennsylvania. That's not good policy. I voted against the health care bill because I didn't think that was the right direction to go.
ALTMIRE: And if you look at the region in eastern Ohio and in West Virginia, in northwestern Pennsylvania, we lost Democratic members that have constituencies very similar to mine. I survived a very close race, but a lot of my neighbors in Congress got literally wiped out because of the agenda that she pursued.
MATTHEWS: Congressman Cummings, your view of this? Because we're looking at reality on the ground. And you saw the TV ads, I'm sure.
CUMMINGS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: They ran against—as if she was, I don't know, Bella Abzug, somebody—another one of these characters that come up (INAUDIBLE) They always come up with one, the Republicans, someone in the Democratic Party that they use as the worst case scenario for whosever running.
CUMMINGS: Yes. I think that, basically, again, you nailed it, Chris. I think they picked out Ms. Pelosi and made her the person that they wanted to use to symbolize exactly a lot of the things that the Republicans did not want. Keep in mind that Mr. Foley, Congressman Foley lost a few years ago, and he was the leader, the Speaker. And so I think we're going to have those—I mean, those things are going to happen. They're going to got to pick somebody to do that with.
Now, I think no matter who had been head of the Democratic Party in the House, I think they probably would have suffered the same things. It was Jim Clyburn, I think, said it right. I mean, we're dealing in a difficult situation. We've got a jobs problem that this president has been trying to address, but with phenomenal opposition by—from the Republicans.
CUMMINGS: And so we've had a lot to deal with. And I think Nancy Pelosi has done an outstanding job, and she will be the leader.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you an intellectual question, but it gets really political. Mr. Altmire first, then Mr. Cummings. Is it better for a party, either party, to have a leader who's from a safe district, like—well, Tip O'Neill, in the old days, Cambridge, Massachusetts—I think he had a communist run against him once. That was the only opponent he ever faced up there in his later years—or a Chuck Schumer or somebody from a safe district like Pelosi's, or is it better to have somebody who has to fight like hell to get reelected every six years, like Harry Reid in the Senate?
Do you want somebody from a tough district or someone from a safe district? Because if you're from a safe district, you know the problem, which is they are too far over. If it's from a tricky district, they got to keep playing games with Hispanic votes and every trick in the world to save their seat. That's just my way of putting it, but you have to play a lot of games to hold onto some of these seats. Your thoughts, Mr. Altmire.
ALTMIRE: It's...
MATTHEWS: Should it be better to be a swing seat or a safe seat?
ALTMIRE: It depends on what you...
MATTHEWS: Because you're knocking Nancy Pelosi because she's on the left representing well, I think you'd agree, San Francisco. But you'd say that's not representing western Pennsylvania. San Francisco is uniquely liberal, like Cambridge, Massachusetts, or parts of New York City. But if you have a leader from them, they will represent their areas, and then you will have a poster child, if you will, or woman or man, for what the voters love to go against from the middle part of the country. Your thoughts.
ALTMIRE: Chris, you've outlined exactly the decision the Democratic Party needs to make. Do they want to continue to be the loyal opposition, fighting for a left-of-center ideology that is relevant only in a few areas of the country, or do they want to continue to try to be a national party, a party that can win in the deep South and in the industrial Midwest, places where the party got crushed? I would suggest you have to have a leader who understands the issues that are relative across the entire country, not just along the coasts.
MATTHEWS: OK, who are you for in—who are you for in the leadership race for—let's get this down right now, Mr. Altmire, Steny Hoyer, perhaps, who's going to run again—looks like he's running against Jim Clyburn for whip, the number two position after Pelosi? Who are you for?
ALTMIRE: I support Steny Hoyer.
MATTHEWS: Mr. Cummings, another tough question for you. Do you (INAUDIBLE) do you support Mr. Clyburn or (INAUDIBLE)
CUMMINGS: I'm for both of them.
MATTHEWS: ... or do you...
CUMMINGS: I am for both of them. I think that we're going to end up with a deal where they're both in leadership. Both of them bring phenomenal skills to the plate, and we need both of them. And I think we'll find that happening.
MATTHEWS: Well, who should be whip, number two?
CUMMINGS: I'm not—I'm not going to go into that. But I can tell you...
MATTHEWS: Oh, I love it!
MATTHEWS: I love it!
MATTHEWS: In Philly, they call this "middling" a guy, forcing you to choose between geography and the Black Caucus. I can really hit you with this one.
CUMMINGS: When all the dust settles, both of them will be at the table. And I applaud that. I think we need both of them.
MATTHEWS: Well, Mr. Cummings, I appreciate fully your situation being from Maryland and being a member of the caucus. Thank you, sir. I think this fight should be interesting, if there is one. Thank you, gentlemen. I think, Mr. Altmire, you are a courageous fellow for saying what you do. And I do think that Pelosi was a problem in Pennsylvania. I think she's a problem in that middle part of the country. Part of it's looks, style, manner, ideology. Parts of it's geography. Part of it's—who knows, could be gender, I don't know. But I think there's something that the Republicans love to run against in that part of the country. And I know you have to face the fire for it. Thank you, sir, for joining us.
ALTMIRE: Thank you.
CUMMINGS: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Up next: As Democrats in the House debate over who will lead them, Republicans are fighting over the role the Tea Party's going to play in their caucus. If you think the Democrats have a fight brewing between left and center, look at the Republicans between far right and right of center there. It's a little different. It's a little different. And after energizing the party for the mid-terms, do Tea Parties deserve spots in leadership? Wow! That's a—are they going to go right to the top?
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MATTHEWS: There weren't a lot of bright spots for Democrats in last week's mid-terms, as you might have noticed, but Democratic Association is crowing about its record in last Tuesday's contests. Of the 22 races where the two sides spent heavily, Democrats won 11, Republicans won 10. An independent won one—that's in Rhode Island. The DGA, Democratic Governors Association, is also bragging that they flipped five governorships from red to blue, including California, and fought off Republicans in key target states like Illinois. Who would have thought the Democrats would get out of this thing with Illinois and California?
Still, Republicans won in 11 states formerly held by Democrats and they won control of at least 18 legislative chambers, which gives them the upper hand heading into, of course, the battles for redistricting, which are decided by state legislatures.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Establishment Republicans and Tea Party newcomers, we're calling them, are facing a lot of awkward questions about how each side will get along with each other and just who's in charge of shaping the Republican agenda. Kentucky senator-elect Rand Paul was unabashed about the Tea Party's power coming into Washington. Let's listen to Rand Paul.
RAND PAUL (R-KY), SENATOR-ELECT: And I think the Tea Party actually is coopting Washington. You look around...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Or vice versa.
PAUL: Absolutely. We're coming. We're proud. We're strong. We're loud. And we're going to coopt—and in fact, I think we're already shaping the debate.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Will the Tea Party call the shots or will Republicans find a way to sideline them? Howard Fineman's an MSNBC political analyst and senior political editor at the HuffingtonPost, and Eugene Robinson's also an MSNBC political analyst, and of course, a great columnist for "The Washington Post."
Gene and then Howard, this question. These guys aren't coming in with humble pie. They're not Uriah Heeps. They're coming in, We won, we're the best guys in town, we're the coolest guys, we just arrived at the dance. See our new clothes?
MATTHEWS: We're the coolest guys. We've got engineer boots on. We got (INAUDIBLE) engineer boots, we got the coolest clothes. We're the ones that have beaten the big shots. Listen to us. Take orders from us. I don't think Rand Paul is going to get in line and do what Mitch McConnell tells him to do.
EUGENE ROBINSON, "WASHINGTON POST," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I really don't think so, especially since Mitch McConnell did everything he could possibly do to keep Rand Paul...
MATTHEWS: Right.
ROBINSON: ... from being nominated. But no, they're coming in as if they have the mandate of heaven. You know, it's...
MATTHEWS: Is this going to be the best thing ever happened to the Democrats, to have these guys out there?
ROBINSON: Potentially, it is. It's going to be interesting. It's going to be great for all of us because...
MATTHEWS: Yes, because we...
ROBINSON: ... this is going to have a great storyline.
MATTHEWS: I have just served up to Altmire, Jason Altmire, who's a bright young guy, obviously—not being condescending, he is—he just got elected in the toughest year in the world for most—Gene Atkinson's (ph) old seat. And he's worried about having himself branded with an unpopular image, icon, Nancy Pelosi, who's very attractive, obviously, to most people in that part of the country, not so attractive to people in the hardscrabble areas where the Rust Belt dominates. Same problem with—will the Tea Party scare the suburbs to death and chase them right back to the Democratic Party in a year or two?
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, they could, if the Tea Party...
MATTHEWS: The Christine O'Donnell crowd.
FINEMAN: They could, if the Tea Party is true to its claims. They're saying they want to, for example, cut $100 billion out of the non-defense discretionary budget. Now, we could say that's just peanuts compared to the giant debt. However, if you're actually going to do that, you're going to cut about 20 percent—that is $1 out of every five—out of that whole thing.
MATTHEWS: That's a lot of squeal there.
FINEMAN: That's a lot of money. So if they're serious about it, yes, they're going to scare some people, but that's what they claim they want to do.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's get the real—here's Jim DeMint, who's, of course, the sort of the godfather of—no disrespect—well, maybe some disrespect—godfather of this. He's talking about the relationship between Republicans and the Tea Party. He's the member of the Senate from South Carolina who was one of their biggest cheerleaders, if not their number one sort of senior member. Let's listen.
SEN. JIM DEMINT ®, SOUTH CAROLINA: I'm hoping the Republican Party will embrace a lot of the ideas of the Tea Party, but it's a mistake to think that the Tea Party is one big organization. It's made up of thousands of leaders all across the country, of citizens who are just tired of out-of-control spending. They want to take back the power from the Washington politicians. And I think they made a huge difference in the election. But they're just a part of this awakening of the American people, the citizen activism I think that's realigning politics in America today.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at Rand Paul again here. He's—let's have what he has to say here, Rand Paul.
PAUL: Primarily, the Tea Party is about the debt. It's concerned and worried that we're inheriting or passing along this debt to our kids and our grandkids, is the number one thing of the Tea Party. I don't believe I'll vote to raise the debt ceiling.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST, "THIS WEEK WITH CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR": You won't?
PAUL: No. I think that we need to send a message—we need to send a strong message that...
AMANPOUR: The government would default, then.
PAUL: Well, only if we won the vote, would they default.
AMANPOUR: So, you think it won't pass?
PAUL: You know, I think it's unlikely. There are people who vote against the debt ceiling every time to send a message that adding more debt is wrong.
MATTHEWS: So, is this the little square dance they're putting together, that the Tea Party guys give the symbolic votes against government, while the regular Republicans fill in for them and make sure every—the ship stays afloat?
MATTHEWS: In other words, it's a game. He's setting it up as a game.
FINEMAN: I was amazed that Dr. Rand Paul, who's this supposed neophyte, who is coming from the wilds of Kentucky up here, unschooled in the ways of Washington...
FINEMAN: ... has already figured out...
MATTHEWS: The game.
FINEMAN: ... the game.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: He's going to vote for it secure in the knowledge that most others people won't be crazy enough to vote for.
ROBINSON: Right.
MATTHEWS: The oldest Washington trick is to be on the losing side of an unpopular winning issue on the winning side of some...
FINEMAN: Exactly.
ROBINSON: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: It's so simple. They always need 218 in the House and 51 in the Senate. So, he says getting a bunch of these squirrels together and vote for the thing. I'm not going to be one of them.
FINEMAN: OK. Well, what Mitch McConnell's going to say—and it's going to be fascinating.
Now, I used to work in Kentucky, so I now see everything through the lens of McConnell vs. Rand. But what a dance that is going to be for the next year or two, because McConnell will say to Rand, OK, you can vote against raising the debt ceiling. But what are you going to do about earmarks?
Because Mitch McConnell, of course, loves earmarks. So, he will make...
MATTHEWS: There's another political party that's still around. In fact, they control the Senate, at least nominally.
FINEMAN: Right.
MATTHEWS: So, you're Harry Reid and you're ticked off as hell at these guys. And you say, you want to play this little dance, so, the right-wingers get to vote against everything and the regulars get to vote minimally for what we have to do to pass?
How about if I don't give you any Democratic votes for the debt ceiling? How about I make you guys come up with the 50 votes or most of them? What happens then? Then Rand Paul can't play his little game of playing hard to get. He's got to be one of the Republicans who served up the vote for unpopular things like funding of the IMF and all these things you have to do every two years, every year, that nobody likes to do.
FINEMAN: Well, the only problem with that is, I can all—we can all see where this game is headed with the debt ceiling thing. It's going to be, who is going to get the blame?
If the Democrats, who still nominally control the Senate, sit on their hands and don't vote for it, then that gives the Republicans...
MATTHEWS: But, if you're Harry, you're going so say—Mr. Reid, Senator Reid, you're going to say, OK, buddy. I know this game, 50-50. I will give you half. You give me half.
MATTHEWS: And every one of my members who is running for reelection next year ain't going to be one of them. Everybody who just got elected for six years, yes, you got—you got Pat Leahy's vote. You got Mikulski's vote, but you're not going to get the other guys' vote.
ROBINSON: Right. If some of your guys get to sit out, some of my guys get to sit out.
MATTHEWS: So, if we're figuring it out, aren't the voters watching the show know the game and how it's going to be played?
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: That all the people are going to posture themselves.
Well, let's go. Here's more DeMint. Let's see if we can figure out what they're up to. Here's DeMint, of course the South Carolinian. He seemed to say the Republicans owed their victory to the Tea Party and he defended his support for Christine O'Donnell, of all people, a very nice person I think most people in Delaware agreed shouldn't be in the U.S. Senate. Let's listen.
SEN. JIM DEMINT ®, SOUTH CAROLINA: The Tea Party are responsible for just about every Republican who was elected around the country. This time last year, if people will think about it, we were concerned about holding our own.
Many thought Republicans would fall below 38 in the Senate, so I supported all the Republican candidates, including Christine O'Donnell. Unfortunately, she was so maligned by Republicans, I don't think she ever had a chance.
MATTHEWS: That's absurd talk.
Her own problems are her own problems. I mean, she has a delightful personality, a delightful appearance. She has a lot of spirit. And maybe some day, she will get elected to some lower office. I think the Senate is beyond her reach.
Let's take a look at Lindsey Graham, because he comes off as sort of a thoughtful person in this fight. But maybe he's just a favorite of ours. But here he is.
That will get him in trouble.
Here he is.
MATTHEWS: "If you think what happened in Delaware is a win for the Republican Party, then we don't have a snowball's chance to win the White House. If you think Delaware was a wakeup call for Republicans, then we have shot at doing well for a long time."
In other words, when you run a person who shouldn't be nominated, you learn your lesson. Let's not have too much fun in this business. Let's take it seriously.
FINEMAN: I can't tell you how much the Republican Senate establishment hates Jim DeMint.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: They hate him.
ROBINSON: Right.
FINEMAN: And one reason they hate is he's complaining about the fact that they were trashing Christine O'Donnell, where he, Jim DeMint, went around the country for the previous year, trashing all of the Republican candidates that he thought were not sufficiently Tea Party-esque.
MATTHEWS: Well, I don't want to defend the establishment, but this is...
ROBINSON: Well, but this is going to be the fight. It's going to be the Republican establishment vs. the Tea Partiers and DeMint. And that's going to be fascinating.
MATTHEWS: Well, I think, Howard, you started off really well here tonight with the question of—well, you did—with the question of, if you're going to promise to cut everything, cut everything, and then pay the price for it, because there is not a game here.
These programs have been worked up for years by constituency groups to live off them. And there's going to be a lot of yelping and pain when you cut them, even if you have to cut them.
FINEMAN: I think if they—if the Tea Party Republicans and other Republicans are willing to talk straight about what they're proposing to do...
MATTHEWS: Real pain.
FINEMAN: ... and really talk about it and be brave about it, then...
FINEMAN: ... they will get a lot of respect for them.
MATTHEWS: Well, they will get some from me.
FINEMAN: That's not what they're planning...
MATTHEWS: I remember Ronald Reagan. Remember Reagan? Reagan never cut anything, really. He would say—he'd talk about cutting, and then he would get waste, fraud, and abuse.
ROBINSON: What they have in mind is waste, fraud, and talking about that.
FINEMAN: Social Security. I think one of the people over the weekend mentioned hundreds of billions of dollars that you could save in waste in the Social Security program...
ROBINSON: Yes, right.
FINEMAN: ... which I don't think is true. I think the Social Security program, vast though it is, is probably one of the best...
MATTHEWS: And, by the way...
FINEMAN: ... best administrated programs ever.
MATTHEWS: Yes, you could have a means-testing program. You want that? Oh, you make too much money. You're not going to get it. See how that goes over.
Thank you, Howard. Thank you, Eugene. Professors.
Up next: President Obama traveled to India to try to create more jobs in the U.S. Well, that's the argument. But what will he be remembered for most over there? We have got the answer next in the "Sideshow."
This wasn't the best-timed trip in the world, I don't think.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
First tonight: dance diplomacy. Yesterday, a reluctant President Obama was pulled into a dance with Mumbai schoolchildren to celebrate Diwali, the Indian festival of lights.
While Michelle is trying to groove with the kids, do what they're doing, the president seems like he's staying American, doing some sort of frug or whatever we call dancing that we do these days. That's sort of what I do.
Anyway, the local "Mail Today" newspaper wrote that while Michelle Obama was—has a natural sense of rhythm, her husband—quote—"looks lost on the dance floor"—pretty well-written there.
Next, tell us what you really think.
Here's Gotham, New York, Mayor Mike Bloomberg this weekend at an environmental summit over in Hong Kong—quote—"If you look at the U.S., you look at who we're electing to Congress, to the Senate, they can't read, he said. I will bet you a bunch of these people don't have passports. We're about to start a trade war with China, if we're not careful here, only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is."
Well, Bloomberg added that he's not planning a run in 2012 for president. And with comments like that last one, I'm inclined to believe him.
They can't read? He's talking about senators and members of Congress.
They can't read. Nobody can call this guy a pander bear.
Now to tonight's "Big Number."
Texas Governor Rick Perry is again thumbing his nose at the federal government. This time, he's aiming at the Environmental Protection Agency.
In the past nine months, how many lawsuits has the state of Texas filed
against the EPA? Seven, seven lawsuits, about one a month, lawsuits
against the EPA's efforts to battle climate change. Well, he's out his way
tonight's "Don't mess with Texas" "Big Number."
Up next—and that guy's running for president.
Up next: George W. Bush's new memoir. The former president thought about dumping Dick Cheney as vice president and says Cheney was angered when he, Bush, refused to pardon Scooter Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, his felonious chief of staff.
More from the former president's new book when we return. We got the
we got enough information from the book. Let's put it that way.
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MATTHEWS: That is the strangest setup, where they're sitting across -
they usually have chairs, wing-back chairs, in some posh hotel room.
There they are, sitting across from each other like—it's not like a prison scene.
RON CHRISTIE, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUSH: Kind of looks like a dark room. What the heck is that?
MATTHEWS: I'm sure Matt and the producers at "The Today Show" figured this out, but it's really an amazing—I thought Matt did a hell of the job with this interview, when he got the president to be so personal there.
Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was President Bush's discussion with Matt Lauer of course on NBC about his "December Points," the name of the book. It's literally coming out tomorrow, though everybody has gotten a peek at it.
The books begins with an effort to shape his presidential legacy, obviously. Earlier on "The Today Show," Matt Lauer asked him about Scooter Libby. Now, Scooter Libby, to those who are not experts on "HARDBALL," was chief of staff to Vice President Cheney. He got convicted of about five felony counts of obstruction of justice and perjury. The president commuted the sentence to time served or whatever.
Let's listen to him discussing that now.
BUSH: Scooter is a loyal American who worked for Vice President Cheney who got caught up in this Valerie Plame case, and was indicted and convicted. And I chose to commute his sentence. I felt he had paid enough of a penalty.
MATT LAUER, CO-HOST, "THE TODAY SHOW": Critics immediately said, if you're loyal to Bush, you don't have to go to prison. So, it didn't come without a price.
BUSH: That's right.
LAUER: And yet, Vice President Cheney wanted more.
BUSH: He did. He wanted me to pardon him. And this was a decision that was—well, the last decision of the presidency, really. And I chose to let the jury verdict stand, after some serious deliberation. And the vice president was angry.
LAUER: Yes. When you went to him and you told him, you said he was furious. And he said, "I can't believe you're going to leave a soldier on the battlefield."
BUSH: Yes, he did.
MATTHEWS: Well, he didn't actually leave the verdict stand, because Scooter was supposed to go away for many years to prison for numerous felonies, but apparently the president let him off and thought that was letting the jury have its way. The jury wanted to send him to prison for many years. The president let him off.
Ron Christie is a former aide who never got in trouble working for Vice President Cheney, not yet.
MATTHEWS: I'm just kidding.
And Joan Walsh is editor at large of Salon.com.
Joan, I—here's the president of the United States, the former president, has been in—basically in hiding for all these months, appropriately so, I think. He stayed out of the game of politics. Fair enough. Now he's back selling a book. They all do it. Nothing new here.
JOAN WALSH, EDITOR IN CHIEF, SALON.COM: Right.
MATTHEWS: What do you find of his remarks with Matt Lauer the other night educational? Anything new there?
WALSH: I don't think there's anything terribly new there.
He wants to make it clear that he stood up to Cheney. He wants to make it clear that he was really his own man, and so he reveals a few things that basically we already new about Libby. I find it—the idea that Libby was a soldier on the battlefield left behind is just so self-pitying and so dramatic on Cheney's part. But I guess I...
MATTHEWS: Especially since Cheney made a point of never being a soldier on the field, with five deferments.
WALSH: Really. Really. Exactly.
MATTHEWS: And so the common soldier on the field, or use that
reference, like I'm an old battle hand. I have been out there as a
warrior. I know how these...
WALSH: And we're all out there taking fire, when we're sitting in comfy offices and we're outing a CIA agent and putting her in danger.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
It's just like the self-dramatization and the self-importance of that line. It's a great line. But we all—we knew that they fought about that. You know, I wish he would have stood up. If he was going to stand up to Vice President Cheney, it might have been better over the Iraq war. And some of his revelations about the war are patently ridiculous.
MATTHEWS: Ron Christie, what did you think of the president?
CHRISTIE: Well, I think he looks very relaxed.
This is the George Bush that I have seen, Chris, since he's left
office. I have seen him a couple of times. I will see him later on this
week. And I think it's really important now that people, after two years -
and he really has taken himself out of public light—it's his opportunity to explain some of the key decisions in his life, not just his administration's.
MATTHEWS: How do you explain a guy who committed five felonies, and the jury found him guilty, they sentenced him to prison, I let the jury verdict stand, but I let him off? That doesn't make any sense.
CHRISTIE: I think Scooter Libby, that was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice we have seen...
MATTHEWS: But he let—no, where's the consistency in the president's account here? He said he let the jury decision stand, but he let him out.
CHRISTIE: I think, if you listen to what the president said, Chris, he said, "I think that Scooter suffered enough."
I think he did.
MATTHEWS: What, by going to trial?
CHRISTIE: His kids were getting—his—his kids were being harassed at school, his family. He lost all of his money.
And, frankly, if you want to get to what Joan said—and Joan, I'm
not going to argue with you today—but if you get to Joan said, Chris,
she said
MATTHEWS: Argue with me.
CHRISTIE: Well, I'll argue with you. I'm in a good mood today.
The underlying issue is that Scooter did not out Valerie Plame. She had, of course, her identity—
MATTHEWS: The jury found him guilty of forgery and obstruction of justice. Was he guilty?
CHRISTIE: Exactly. Chris, look, I don't think he was.
MATTHEWS: So, if you were on the jury, you would have forced a hung jury?
CHRISTIE: Well, of course, I didn't sit and I wasn't in the jury deliberations. But as a lawyer, you can indict a ham sandwich, Chris.
MATTHEWS: No, he's convicted.
CHRISTIE: He—I'm very well aware of that.
CHRISTIE: I don't think we want to relitigate the Scooter Libby—
MATTHEWS: No, I'm just trying to know if the president of the United States knows reality.
CHRISTIE: The president of the United States does know reality. He said Scooter suffered enough.
MATTHEWS: He says he let the jury decision stand and he didn't, Joan. That's all I'm asking. Can the president separate reality from his own subjective universe? When he says I let the jury stand, then he said, I let him go, most people will say, I'd like to have a jury like that where they let me go after convicted by a jury of 12 people.
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM: Right.
MATTHEWS: Let's go to a thing, much more serious than the war itself, which cost the lives of 77,000 people and counting.
President Bush writes about not finding weapons of mass destruction, quote, "When Saddam didn't use weapons of mass destruction on our troops, I was relieved. When we didn't discover the stockpile soon after the fall of Baghdad, I was surprised. When the whole summer passed without finding any I was alarmed. No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I though about it. I still do."
So, he's talking about his subjective feelings here again.
And here's the question: he says later on that he protected us from being hit again by attacking in Iraq, but then says I didn't find any weapons. He protected us from the weapons that didn't exist.
WALSH: That didn't exist.
MATTHEWS: I think it makes no—Joan, it makes no logical sense to say, I protected us from the weapons they didn't have. There were no nuclear or biological or chemical. They weren't there. I protected us by going to war, 77,000 dead people later, and I should get credit because we weren't hit again by weapons that don't exist.
It doesn't make sense to a regular person listening to this.
WALSH: It doesn't make any sense. I mean, come on, he sits there and says he's sickened, he's saddened, he's angry about it.
MATTHEWS: Who cares?
WALSH: And then, the three—but also the three of us remember he did that funny little routine at one of the—one of the big Washington dinners where he's on his hands and knees, looking behind the couch, where the WMDs? That was hilarious. Are you sickened? Are you sickened or do you think it's funny? I mean, that's where this guy's moral compass and psychological compass—something's always off to me. Something—
CHRISTIE: Wait a second. I am not going to let you sit there and talk about his psychological compass for someone who you don't even know.
MATTHEWS: Help us explicate this poetry. How can you—
MATTHEWS: He said that he was sickened by the fact there was no WMD there. Then he said, by the fact, we fought the war, he protected us from being hit again. By what, the WMD that wasn't there? There's no logic to that.
CHRISTIE: No, the logic is very simple. The fact of the matter of is, we were hit on September 11th, 2001.
MATTHEWS: By al-Qaeda.
CHRISTIE: By al Qaeda. The president of the United States took every step necessary, going to war in Iraq, he believed that was the right thing to do—going to war in Afghanistan, working with Congress to create the Department of Homeland Security.
MATTHEWS: But the question was Iraq.
CHRISTIE: No, Chris, the question is—
MATTHEWS: The question was Iraq.
CHRISTIE: You asked me to justify—
MATTHEWS: Matt Lauer asked him, how do you justify all the horror stories that were accompanied to the Iraq war? He answered it was justified because we weren't hit again.
CHRISTIE: Correct.
MATTHEWS: Nobody got killed when we defended—let's listen to Matt. Let's listen to the exact discussion so you can focus here again. Here's President Bush in the 9/11 attacks in his interview with Matt Lauer.
Let's listen.
MATT LAUER, NBC NEWS: Here's something else from the book, "September 11th redefined sacrifice. It redefined duty and it would redefine my job. I could never forget what happened to America that day. I would pour my heart and soul into protecting this country whatever it took."
It took two wars.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Yes.
LAUER: It took thousands of lives, American lives, billions of dollars. You could say it took Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
BUSH: Yes.
LAUER: And government eavesdropping and waterboarding. Did it take too much?
BUSH: We didn't have an attack. Three thousand people died on September the 11th, and I vowed I would do my duty to protect the American people and they didn't hit us again.
MATTHEWS: The decision point was going to Iraq. How does that decision to go to Iraq save lives?
CHRISTIE: Part of his overall strategy.
MATTHEWS: How did that—that's the issue.
CHRISTIE: Well, you're taking out a very unstable dictator.
MATTHEWS: Seventy-seven thousand people dead. How did that stop us from being hit again by the al Qaeda?
CHRISTIE: Because you're taking out a very unstable dictator who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people.
CHRISTIE: You didn't let me—
MATTHEWS: Go ahead. Make your point, but I don't hear anything here.
CHRISTIE: My point is it was part of a broader comprehensive strategy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeland Security. You can quibble with his decision to go to war, Chris, but the fact of the matter, is president was able correct. We were not hit again after September 11th.
MATTHEWS: What does Iraq have to do with the decision by the enemy, whoever it is, which enemy we're talking about here.
MATTHEWS: Joan, what is the role of an Iraq in keeping us safe?
WALSH: I don't believe that there's any role, Chris. I don't believe there's any role. There was no al-Qaeda involvement in Iraq. There was no Iraqi involvement in 9/11.
It was a war of choice. It was a war that the neocons had been pushing and pushing literally for years. They got their man. They got their man to do it, and, you know, we're still stuck there many thousands of lives later.
MATTHEWS: It's the same old conflation, game of conflating. He always conflates. He conflates 9/11 with Iraq. He did it again there. He kept conflating weapons of mass destruction, keep it confusing what kind of weapons we're talking about.
CHRISTIE: We didn't get hit again. You can say all you want conflation all you want.
CHRISTIE: Part of a broader strategy, we were not hit again. He made it his number one mission to protect the American people and that, we have a lot to be grateful for.
MATTHEWS: And to 77,000 people dead in Iraq had nothing to do with it.
Thank you, Ron Christie. Thank you, Joan Walsh.
Scooter Libby, what is he? (INAUDIBLE) I can't tell from the president.
Coming up, President Obama—is he a soldier on the field or what? He's a casualty of Dick Cheney I think. Anyway, let's get into the question, the right and left and what's coming up here.
We're getting—is the president isolated? See that man right there. Is he isolated from this kind of debate we're having right now?
What's it going to take for the president to get things back on track? Does he need to do a major shake-up inside the White House to get it done? That's my question. I think it's an open question.
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MATTHEWS: We'll be right back for what President Obama needs to do to get back in the game. He's over in India. What's he need to do when he gets back?
HARDBALL, back after this.
OBAMA: Part of my promise to the American people when I was elected was to maintain the kind tone that says we can disagree without being disagreeable. And I think over the course of two years, there have been times I've slipped on that commitment.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
President Obama took a somber tone in that "60 Minutes" interview with Steve Kroft. It was taped before his overseas trip, obviously.
How does he bounce back from defeat? People do it.
Joining me now: our MSNBC political analyst, Richard Wolffe, and the "Huffington Post" White House correspondent, Sam Stein.
I mean, it's really the toughest question in the world when you get hit hard, 60 something seats, almost up to 70 almost in the House. Holding a Senate but with a lot of scar tissue here now. The president seems unclear what he wants to do now.
I can't predict by listening to him—will it be a shake-up? Will he go to defense? Will he bring in the real heavy weights chief of staff? Will he do the kinds of things I've mentioned, other people have mentioned.
Will he do something in terms of ideological nuancing, finding a way with the business community to do something that makes sense to progressives but also makes sense to business. Will he thread the needle? Survive but still stand for something?
SAM STEIN, HUFFINGTON POST: Yes. Well, I talked to a White House staffer today about that "60 Minutes" interview because he seemed so somber there and reflective, and there's no aggression to it. And they say that was sort of deliberate. It's time to look and figure out what's going on.
I suspect that in this trip back from India, he and his advisers are going to talk a lot about whether to do staff shake-up, how to handle things legislatively. They've come to grips that there's not much they can do now legislatively in these next two years because Republicans will block it up.
MATTHEWS: So, it's expected he's got to use the executive?
STEIN: He's got to figure out what tools he has in the executive branch to actually, you know, affect change and get this economy back on track. It's not an easy task.
MATTHEWS: He has one advantage. The Republicans have a simple agenda, but it's not a grand agenda: cut taxes, screw around with the health care bill. That's not going to excite people yet.
What's he going to do to control events?
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: It's also contradictory and this is where he gets into his default position, which is to say: I'm the only grown-up in the room. I'm the one who's serious about this stuff. You want to talk about the politics, about the deficit—and that's what independent voters talk about—but you cannot manage the deficit. You cannot cut the deficit if you're going to go after tax cuts all the time.
So, he can play the grown-up and say, I'm above the fray. That's the tactical place he's going to be. But that's still not selling what he wants to do. That's just outmaneuvering the other side.
MATTHEWS: Here's the president on leadership versus legislation.
Let's listen.
OBAMA: We were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that we'd stop paying attention to the fact that leadership isn't just legislation, that it's matter of persuading people and giving them confidence and bringing them together and sending a tone. We haven't always been successful at that and I take personal responsibility for that.
MATTHEWS: You know, Reagan did a lot on his first year, a lot of presidents, George W., they think it's his first year, I didn't agree, but he did them. They tended to get credit for them and get re-elected. This time, there seems to be disconnect. Maybe it's because he wanted to do progressive things and not just cut taxes.
STEIN: Sure, well, there's two things here. One is that, you know, the galvanizing force in the campaign 2008 was that he was going to bring civility to politics. That's a two-way street. You need to have the other side—
MATTHEWS: How do you do that in a world of Rush Limbaugh?
STEIN: You don't. And that's the problem.
MATTHEWS: Setting the tone and then forcing the left to respond to that, in the Congress and in the media, a forcing a kind of an environment which is all polarized. How do you say, well, I'll be a reasonable a center-left politician in that environment?
STEIN: But that's my point. You don't—you can't do that. And that sort of why you decide to press turn among the Democrats, because there wasn't that galvanizing "Let's bring civility to politics" message. The second thing is, and this is why people are saying there shouldn't be a staff shake-up or there shouldn't be a leadership shake-up.
MATTHEWS: What do you say?
STEIN: Well, this is the point. They make I think it's a valid point in some respects. Legislative accomplishments are going to outlast this Republican majority in the House. They are.
MATTHEWS: Sorry, we're short today. Richard Wolffe, thank you, sir.
WOLFFE: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: You've been here before.
Thank you, Sam Stein.
I've got thoughts about President Kennedy's election and for those older people here, you remember, it was 50 years ago today, November 8th, 1960.
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MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with a roar.
Fifteen years ago—I'm sorry -- 50 years ago today, this country experienced the most exciting presidential election in our history. Two candidates raced to the end. Every two weeks, the Gallup Poll showed them barely within a point or two of each other. It was never more neck and neck when they crossed the finish line, this date, November 8th, 1960.
It was an election that truly set the course of this country. I can imagine the America that would have emerged from a Nixon victory, it would had been a continuation of the 1950s: dull, complacent, grumpy, Cold War-weary—yet still living with a mindset that like the reasonable fear of nuclear war.
What Kennedy brought to the White House was a sense of optimism. We could get to the moon! We could find common ground with the third world. We could rebuild America's prestige after Sputniking, Castro and too many years of Jim Crowe.
Jack Kennedy believed in his own and the country's basic strength. Nixon, for all his brains, would have viewed the Cuban missile crisis the most frightening episode of the time as a test of his manhood, and that would had been trouble.
That election campaign of 1960 showed so much of these two men. Kennedy had promised to get the country moving again. Nixon had to defend against the sense we were slipping, that the Soviets were getting a jump on us, but he also had grit, the regular guy against the movie star. The scholarship kid, if you will, against the legacy kid—the cloth-coat Republican against the rich man's son.
I love this quote of his, "You know, it's not Jack's money you're going to be spending," he said standing in the rain one day with all that 5:00 shadow. It was that kind of an election as you see in these Life.com pictures, all personality and all issues and excitement and debates and big city motorcades where each candidate would draw a half million or a million people into the streets.
People wore skimmer hats with their candidates name on it, millions wore buttons, had lunch time arguments with their closest relatives and friends and watch through the night to see who'd won. Millions cried. Millions more were thrilled. Everyone listening.
Now knows what I'm talking about and remembers the excitement of a country picking a leader and we had two smart candidates to choose from. It was the emotional investment of that campaign with 80 million people voting and a much smaller country than this one that made the horror of three years later so awful. We've done it all to pick a leader only to have them take it away.
If you're young, ask your parents about it. If you're older, you know. It's something we've never gotten, never really gotten over.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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I noted I hadn't been in that position, so it wouldn't be fair for me to speculate how I'd feel about it.
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New van is regular one yr from now in Chevrolet gang. It can be contender to Ford's matchless high quality on this part. With 2015 Express, Chevrolet is desirous to make fast impact to van market. Highlight of this van might be deftness, unbelievable caring for and higher effectivity in its class. This little van can be impeccable on the off likelihood that you've got necessities for taking restricted measure of load beginning with one level then onto the subsequent with little utilization and never monumental inconvenience taking good care of it.
The 2015 Chevrolet Express is concentrated across the auto's stage. Chevy Cruze is its relative and it'll land its concept to the City Express van. This automobile, with expansive inside half might be flawless as conveyance administration's car or a taxi. It's measurements, seventy three.S inches tall and 186.O inches in size makes it ultimate for driving over the any metropolis and stopping, whereas 122.S cubic ft of payload house leaves sufficient house for towing quite a few articles.
Effectiveness is a press release that greatest portrays 2015 Express. It's outer floor look reminds on Nissan NV 200, nonetheless there are contrasts. These are principally noticeable at the back and front finishes. Likenesses usually are not bizarre, since GM and Nissan have affiliation in creating new fashions and enhancing present automobiles.
Participation between Nissan and GM result in the circumstances the place new 2015 Chevrolet Express will purchase a motor from Nissan NV 200. That might be P.zero-liter 4-chamber, 131 hp evaluated drivetrain. This motor can be matched with persistently variable transmission (CVT). This motor is probably biggest absence of this van. Processing solely 131 hp, this motor is extra appropriate to some automotive, as a substitute of a van brimming with load. Quickening will likewise endure, nevertheless that may carry a couple of noticeable enchancment mileage numbers. Nissan NV 200 joined collectively mpg fee is 24. Notwithstanding, a number of gossipy tidbits are telling that 2015 Chevrolet Express may have P.zero-l diesel alternative to boost energy. In any case, this hasn't been affirmed from the group but.
The 2015 Chevy Express was exhibited at Chicago auto present. Notwithstanding, its market presentation is regular earlier than this present 12 months's over, probably in fall, as 2015 yr mannequin. Evaluating is just not affirmed but, nonetheless just a few masters anticipate that $21.000 will likely be starting tag for 2015 Chevrolet Express.
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Eminem - Backstabber lyrics
[Police Scanner]
Attention all units, attention all units
We have an all-points bulletin out on a man with green hair
I repeat, we have an APB on a man with green hair
He's armed with a knife, I repeat, he's armed with a knife
Proceed with caution, watch your back, fellas!
He could be coming at your girlfriend next
[Verse 1]
There's a joker on the loose from the psychiatric ward
His face is up on the bulletin board with a reward
He'll stab you with a sword, don't be fooled by his charm
He's probably armed with intent to do bodily harm
Ring the alarm, look for a man with green hair
Check at your girl's house, he was last seen there
He's has a mean stare but usually cracks jokes
Good luck on your mission and guard your backs, folks
Come here, you f**in' backstabber!
(Why I oughta) beat a b**h snake from the hood, haha
Come here, you f**in' backstabber!
(Why I oughta)
Stay away from him, he ain't no good!
[Verse 2]
We got the walkie-talkies to keep us all informed
Suited up head to toe in detective uniforms
Our unit storms in, we split the ghetto in sectors
Locking down every block and put up metal detectors
Protect yours and be sure that you stand close
Watch each other's backs and guard your command post
And most of all be advised that he's wise
He could be disguised as one of your very own guys
[Verse 3]
I'm on a solo mission to find him personally
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To settle the score and to beat him unmercifully
For what he first did to me, it's sure to be the last
Following footprints with a magnifying gla**
To drag his lying a** back to his padded cell
I'm mad as hell, on the trail of this tattle tail
I heard a yell, the voice sounded familiar
"Give me your girlfriend or I'm gonna k** ya!"
[Verse 4]
I followed the voice that led down a flight of steps
Sneezing at dust, and swinging at the spider webs
Inside the depths of his basement
I taste lint in my mouth, then the lights in the place went!
I saw my life flash in front of my eyes
I felt a butcher knife slash at one of my thighs
None of my guys knew where I'm at, I was doomed
Then I remembered the flashlight in my costume
[Verse 5]
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned
They're only powerful when you got your back turned
I yearned for the day that we finally met again
So I can give him a taste of his own medicine
He shed his skin, then he promised to come clean
I took his butcher knife and jabbed it into his spleen
Cuffed him at the scene then dragged the fella home
Beating him over the head with the telephone
[Police voice]
Attention all cars, attention all cars
Unit 313 has apprehended the suspect
He's going back to the crazy home
I repeat, he's going back to the crazy home
Job well done!
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Next week, the annual band-a-palooza of New York's CMJ Music Marathon commences and for a second year, WFUV and The Alternate Side will host our own showcase, FUV Live at CMJ, on Tuesday, October 15, from 5-9pm at Rockwood Music Hall. This year, we'd like you to discover an international quartet of groups and artists that we're pretty excited about: Lucius, Claire, Saint Rich and James Bay. The entire showcase will be broadcast live on 90.7FM WFUV, streaming online too.
Want to come down to the Lower East Side and see FUV Live at CMJ yourself? The showcase is free to the public (first come, first served) and doors open at Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen Street, at 4:30pm. Set times are subject to change, but the preliminary lineup is listed below.
Over the next week, WFUV and The Alternate Side will take a closer look at Brooklyn indie popsters Lucius, Munich synthpop outfit Claire, Delicate Steve offshoot Saint Rich and British singer-songwriter James Bay. Listen to Lucius' debut album, Wildewoman, streaming this week via WFUV and NPR Music.
Last year, WFUV and The Alternate Side's inaugural CMJ showcase featured Savoir Adore, Little Green Cars, Indians and Wax Poetic. Watch video highlights and listen to the sets in the FUV archives.
FUV Live CMJ Showcase 2013:
5 p.m. - 5:40 p.m. EDT: Lucius
6 p.m. - 6:40 p.m. EDT: Saint Rich
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8 p.m. - 8:20 p.m. EDT: Claire
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Disable Submit Form On Enter Key Press?Mar 31, 2010
Wondering if there's a better way than what I'm doing to disable that when a user presses Enter, the form is submitted.
I'm catching the enter key onkeydown events. And it works fine on input boxes but I noticed that if a user selects something on a drop down menu and presses the enter key, the form is also submitted. As far as I know drop downs don't have an onkeypress event.
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I find myself reading less and less book reviews, even tho I spend more and more time on sites like Amazon and Goodreads. Why? It seems that many book reviewers feel the need to dump not only their personal feelings on what happened in a fictional story, but leave an entire summary of the book, dropping plot spoilers about important characters (by name, no less!) or story twists, that are called twists for a reason – they shake things up and turn the story around on a dime so that the reader has that 'Oh my gosh, I didn't see THAT coming' moment that most of us really enjoy in a good Fiction book. Let me just say – summarizing a Fiction book online is NOT necessary to leave your opinion of the book. We aren't talking about perennials, college textbooks or biographies about people we already know – we are talking about fantasy worlds or characters created to entertain. Summarizing a Fiction book is like stripping it of all surprise factor. It's just…rude.
So…why do reviewers review this way? I wish I could tell you. With the Indie Author rush on Amazon and elsewhere, book reviews are an important way to make sales. Not the ONLY way, of course, but it makes sense that a book with fifty 4 or 5 star reviews will attract more potential readers than a book with fifty 1 or 2 star reviews. The fact that all reviews are NOT honest from actual readers is a totally different conversation to be had at another time. Back to the why's: Do reviewers feel obligated to lay out the plot for potential readers because they feel they are a voice of authority? Do reviewers reveal plot twists because they were so excited by them they want to share their feelings? Do reviewers know that their words have the potential to turn off or turn on a potential reader? I don't have the answers to these questions. But I do have examples (all the following reviews contain plot spoilers – I suggest you don't actually read them unless you've already read the book):
The last book I read was 'Warm Bodies' by Isaac Marion. Check out this lower star review on Amazon
Before that I read 'Save My Soul' by Kristie Haigwood. Check out this higher star review on Amazon
Not long ago, I read 'The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden' by Jessica Sorensen. Here is an example of an Amazon review riddled with spoilers but with one difference – there is a spoiler alert tag at the top of the review to warn potential readers to stave off.
In Nicolas Spark's 'Safe Haven' (another recent read) there are plenty of moments intended for the reader to enjoy WHILE reading the book. Check out the spoilera in this 4 star review on Amazon!
It seems like the Amazon ranking system for reviews is a moot point. My version of a 5 star book could be the equivalent to another reader's 3 star review. But regardless of the star review rank, one thing is CRYSTAL clear: Reviewers don't seem to understand how to leave an appropriate review! I am betting most of those same people would hate to be told how a book will end, or be given a play-by-play of what a character goes through. I mean, not many potential readers enjoy that. We read Fiction because we want to be entertained. Personally, I don't read something I know the outcome to – why bother? My life is busy, reading for pleasure is not something I have the ability to do 24/7, so when I sit down with a book, I want to be able to lose myself in the story and experience the plot twists for the first time. I know I'm not the only reader who feels the same way. The description area of a book online, left by the Author – who can choose to disclose what he or she wants, or the description on the back of the book, is the only thing I personally want to read before buying it.
Another thing that has exploded is the 'professional reviewer'. Some people actually get paid to review a book. Let's skip over the conflict of paying someone to leave a *cough, cough* honest review and focus on what professional reviewers do – they read. They they tell us about what they read. And their fan base takes into consideration their thoughts the next time they browse for books. A book is not like the new, nifty laptop you are considering purchasing and want to know EVERYTHING about – good and bad before buying. Books are meant to hold a few secrets for the readers. A 'professional' reviewer should obviously know this. So why continue to review books paragraph by paragraph? It's already BEEN written – by the Author! Tell us how you liked the story and move on, don't list it all and ruin the plot for the readers!
Sadly, there isn't much that can be done for the reader browsing on Amazon or Goodreads in search of that next book to read. Amazon should have a box to check for reviewers – 'Does this review contain plots spoilers?' that can then bold that review in RED for the millions of us who want to find out for ourselves what happens, to avoid like the plague. Seriously, if you want to leave your mark on the review page of a book, consider that other people will read it. Consider what you want your mark to be. Will you be the reviewer that tore open a book and spilled its guts for the entire world to see, or will you be the type of reviewer that attracts people to your opinions by your own actual words? As a reviewer, I only seriously consider the reviews left by that latter group. If you happen to be the kind of person who ENJOYS ruining the ending of a book or movie, well I have nothing nice to say, so I won't say anything else to you.
I suggest reading reviews with caution. Some are fantastic. Some are not. But don't stop buying and reading books. I won't, Fiction is a fantasy world I enjoy traveling to on a regular basis. Thank you to all the Authors out there for their hard work. And thank you to the reviewers who (whether they liked the book or not) kept their review tactful for the rest of us.
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UPDATE UPDATE: Looks like the guy DOES have insurance. It's not the company that he originally told the officer he was insured by, though. I'm skeptical. It's another "nonstandard" company for high-risk drivers...d'oh. He called the officer and asked her to give me the agent's name and the claim number, and asked her to relay the message that they're going to take care of it, and really, he didn't see me, and he left because he didn't know where I was. Or something. The officer just relayed the message, she said, because she told him that she would.
How do you rearend someone and not see them? And how do they follow you, beeping the horn, and you not see them? Why would he even say that - or relay that message to me? Was he just saying it to her, really, under the guise of relaying the message to me, to try to convince her not to bring charges?
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Dozens of celebrities ranging from Justin Timberlake to Julia Roberts banded together earlier this month to take part in a telethon to aid the people of the earthquake-ravaged island of Haiti — and the results were stellar. Millions of dollars were raised in the telethon, and with money continuing to come in, Hope For Haiti Now is making no secret of where the aid is going.
According to the Hope For Haiti Now Web site, $35 million has already been distributed, given out on February 5 to around half a dozen well-known charitable organizations working on the ground to bring relief and help rebuild the lives of needy Haitians.
OXFAM America was given $8 million to help fund the organization's efforts to build systems for clean water and sanitation. The group is also using the money to aid in the delivery of shelter and relief supplies and to help with establishing pathways for food security, housing and land issues, according to the Web site.
Partners In Health was given $8 million to aid in helping the group with emergency medical assistance and supplies. The organization is also working to strengthen the public health system and provide rehabilitation, social support and help to the Haitians.
The American Red Cross was given $6 million for emergency shelter and other items to vulnerable families, including those led by women, disabled people, elderly Haitians and more.
Child-targeted UNICEF was given $6 million to help with their work protecting children, to stop or address family separations. The organization will also use the funds to help their work at preventing child exploitation and trafficking.
The United Nations World Food Programme received $6 million to assist with distributing food to vulnerable earthquake victims over the next six months.
Wyclef Jean's YELE Haiti Foundation received $1 million to help with aid delivery and recovery efforts.
The Hope For Haiti Now group plans to make one or two more donation installments. It is expected that the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund will receive monies at a later date
For more information on Hope For Haiti Now and how the money will continue to be used, click HERE.
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New York teenager Keithroy Yearwood could be linked to a landmark hip-hop album.
The high school senior from the Bronx told the Daily News that he is the baby on the cover of late rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 multimillion-selling album "Ready to Die."
"I just want people to know that's me," Yearwood, 18, said. "The truth is finally coming out."
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Apparently, Yearwood earned $150 from the photo shoot through a child modeling agency, Chicky's Kids, that has since gone defunct. Yearwood's mom found agency papers to corrobarate's the teen's assertion.
In the "Ready to Die" cover photo, the baby is wearing a diaper and sporting a large afro.
Those associated with album—including the graphic designer–wasn't sure who the kid was. Bad Boy Records, Diddy's label that released the album, couldn't verify whether it is really Yearwood on the album cover; it did say that the baby came courtesy of a modeling agency.
Yearwood also told the News that it wasn't a huge concern to him until he was eight-years old. "Now, of course, it's a big deal to me." He added that it was a n honor to be on the album.
The Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was gunned down in Los Angeles on Mar. 9, 1997.
Recently, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Nicole Fiorentino claimed she was one of the kids featured on the band's 1993 album "Siamese Dream."
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If you drop in to the "Pilgerherberge im Alltag" pilgrim hostel in Berlin, you will generally meet like-minded people and experienced pilgrims, as well as many people who would love to give it a go and are looking for tips on how to get started. After all, there are opportunities to go on a pilgrimage just a stone's throw away, on the St. James' Way route through Brandenburg.
As the Spanish say, the St. James' Way pilgrimage begins as soon as you leave your house. This seems particularly relevant to Brandenburg, where major pilgrimage routes cross paths. For example, the routes that start on the Baltic Sea coast and head south, or the pilgrimages via Frankfurt an der Oder to the west. It is an ideal network for novice pilgrims, although it does have a few challenging stages. For example, the pilgrimage from Bernau bei Berlin to Hennigsdorf, which is around 59 km long and a stone's throw away from Berlin. You are guaranteed to meet like-minded people there, who have come to Bernau from Szczecin on the Via Imperii pilgrimage route, and who may continue their journey towards Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Leipzig. Or pilgrims who have made their way from Frankfurt an der Oder, who join them for a while and then part ways at Hennigsdorf to head in a north-west direction, perhaps with the final destination of Santiago de Compostela in mind – a whopping 3,080 km from Hennigsdorf! The historic routes through Brandenburg and the Oder region are old, but efforts to maintain them are relatively new. Jakobusgesellschaft Brandenburg-Oderregion e.V., a not-for-profit organisation, has been actively working on researching, maintaining and preparing the old paths for pilgrims since 2011. This is helpful for those who use the routes, and particularly worthwhile for the locals.
Number of routes: 7
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At The Plate – The Cubs tried to stage a late rally but it wasn't enough after they fell behind Memphis 8-2 in the fifth inning. Logan Watkins was 1-for-4 with a double, a walk, and a caught stealing. Ty Wright was 1-for-4 with a double, two RBI's and a run scored. Brian Bogusevic (2-for-4) and Luis Flores (2-for-4) each had two hits in the loss with Bigusevic scoring a run and Flores knocking one in.
On The Mound – Chris Rusin got the start, and got lit up by the Redbirds. Rusin went 4.1 inning giving up seven runs on eight hits while walking two and striking out three, he took the loss, his second of the year. Esmailin Caridad was decent out of the pen going 2.2 innings giving up one run on two hits while walking one ans striking out two. Cory Wade worked a scoreless inning of relief surrendering one hit.
At The Plate – The Smokies are red hot as they easily dispatched the Biscuits, the Biscuits! To win their fifth straight game, and this one was never in doubt. Eight out of the nine Smokies players in the lineup last night had at least one hit. Matt Szczur is out to prove himself this year, and he's doing it so far, he went 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI's, and two runs scored from the lead-off spot, he's now hitting .302 on the season. Arismendy Alcantara was 1-for-4 with a home run, a walk, three RBI's and a run scored, he also made his 8th error. Johermyn Chavez was 2-for-5 with a double, three RBI's and a run scored. Christian Villanueva (2-for-5), Rubi Silva (2-for-4), and Rafael Lopez (2-for-3) all had two hits games in the victory.
On The Mound – Dallas Beeler was outstanding in this one to earn his first victory of the season. Beeler went seven innings giving up four runs, two earned, on four hits while walking one and striking out three. Both Zach Rosscup and Frank Batista worked scoreless inning out of the pen with Rosscup striking out two and Batista striking out one.
At The Plate – The top of the order did all the damage in this one, unfortunately that wasn't enough to knock off the Yankees. Timothy Saunders was 2-for-4 with a stolen base, and a two runs scored from the lead-off spot. John Andreoli, who is red-hot, went 4-for-4 with a walk, an RBI, a stolen base, and two runs scored, he's now hitting .356 on the season. Javier Baez was 1-for-4 with an RBI, while Jorge Soler went 1-for-4 with a double, a walk, and two RBI's. The bottom five guys in the D-Cubs order went a combined 1-for-18 and Daytona as a team was 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
On The Mound – Ben Wells was okay in this one, but still took the loss, he went six innings giving up four runs on seven hits while walking one and striking out six. Yeiper Castillo was dominant out of the pen working two scoreless, hit-less innings while striking out one. Sheldon McDonald didn't fare as well in his inning of work, he gave up two runs on two hits while walking two and striking out two.
At The Plate – The Cougars put this one to rest rather early as they jumped all over the River Bandits building a 6-1 lead in the fourth and cruised to a 7-3 win. Five different Cougars had multi-hit games in this one. Marco Hernandez was 2-for-4 with an RBI, and two runs scored. Daniel Vogelbach was 2-for-4 with a run scored, he's now hitting .309 on the season. Jeimer Candelario was 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI's, and a run scored. Rock Shoulders continued to pound the ball, he was 2-for-3 with a walk, a home run, his third, an RBI, and two runs scored. The Cougars were an impressive 5-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
On The Mound – Pierce Johnson had himself another strong outing and earned his first win of the season. Johnson went five innings giving up one run, unearned, on three hits while walking one and striking out six. Nathan Dorris was solid out of the pen tossing one scoreless inning while giving up one hit and striking out one. Eddie Orozco had some trouble closing things down, but he did, he worked one inning giving up two runs on three hits while striking out one.
At The Plate – Game two was much closer, but ended the same way, with a Cougars win as they swept the double-header. Daniel Vogelbach was 2-for-3 with a walk, and a run scored. But game two, and really the whole day belonged to Rock Shoulders, he was 3-for-3 in game two with his fourth home run of the season, three RBI's and a run scored, his average now sits at .418 on the season after going 5-for-6 in the double-header. Marco Hernandez was 1-for-4 with a triple, and a run scored in the victory.
On The Mound – Tayler Scott did most of the work, double-header games are only seven innings in Minor League ball, Scott went six giving up three runs on five hits while walking one and striking out four to get the win. Jeffry Antigua worked a scoreless final inning to earn his first save of the season, quite the day for the Cougars.
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